Please find attached* a very simple CLI script which will allow you to
play a bit with the Puppy Icons Triangle.

I believe such a simple procedure was never suggested before.

The script offers the following choices:
- Restore the original top left placement
- Put the triangle at the top right of the screen
- Place it at bottom right
- Explode the Triangle as 2 lines at the top of the screen
- Exit the script.

The script does not touch the disk icons line at bottom left.

It was created using racy 5.5, so YMMV a little on other
Puppy versions.

To use:
download and install the attached pet.
Open a console and type

Code:

PPin-place.sh

Feedback appreciated, as well as the results of your experiments.
Enjoy.

musher0
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* There is a more efficient version now. See my message below.

Translation : script is written in English. Iwas joking that i don't understand English. At the first sight, all was fine but a glance to the drive icons made me change my opinion, because they got garbled as shown on the screenshot.

To redraw them:
right-click on one of the disk icons
click the second line; a panel appears
tick the rectangle on the bottom line of that panel
click ok
go back to the initial black console with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace
type xwin and press Return.
Your disk icons should appear normal now.

I've re-tested, and the bottom disk icons are never affected by my script.
Pelo, there must be something else at play on your desktop, here._________________"Logical entities must not be multiplied needlessly." / "Il ne faut pas multiplier les êtres logiques inutilement." (Ockham)

Please find attached version 0.3 in English of my icon placement utility.
It is now named "Triangles.sh". Removal of my previous PPinPlace.sh
script is strongly suggested beforehand.

The goal of this script is to make the alternative placement of icons on the
Puppy desktop easier and faster, and to suggest some pleasant icon
"geometries".

To launch the script,
* open a console
* type

Code:

Triangles-0.3_EN

or

Code:

launchTriangles.sh

* Please read the initial information panel, then
* hit the 'Return' key to get to the options menu, and
* choose an option by typing the corresponding 3-character combination.

Enjoy!

musher0
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Various notes.
For best results,
* this script should be used on a "virgin" desktop, as soon as possible
after installation of your new Puppy. (Use of this script on a desktop that's
already heavily modified may produce a bizarre placement of icons.)

* May also produce undesirable results with the DUde or ToOpPy desktop
environments, or with pwidgets. The script doesn't interfere with anything,
but the appearance may be ugly if used with DE's other than ROX.

Things to do before using this script:
* Change your picture background BEFORE using this script if you don't
want to keep the default Puppy picture. (This script saves the initial
desktop; it can be recalled on demand. If it's "ugly" to begin with, you'll
be stuck with it!)

* If you usually remove, add or modify a couple of icons on the desktop
of any new Puppy, do so BEFORE using this script. (Same reason
as above.)

* Any localization (French, Hungarian, Spanish, etc.) that changes the
label of the icons should be performed BEFORE using this script.

Optional
* You may want to make a backup of of the initial PuppyPin at
/root/Choices/ROX-Filer/PuppyPin, as a fall-back against chaos.

* Once you have found a pleasant icon placement scheme, please feel
free to further personalize it. Just keep in mind the caution note above if
you use this "Triangle" script afterwards.

Testing
* At this time, this script has been tested and works well on wary 5.5,
racy 5.5 and lupu 5.2.8.6. Since it doesn't call upon any exotic library or
utility, it should work in all Puppies offering the usual ROX environment.

* The disk icon problem reported above by pelo in the draft version has
been solved.

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